Story theatre. The world of languages | 25/01/2025, 13:00 | Humboldt Forum (2024)

A visual map representation follows.Skip map

Show on map

Anansi the spider wants to capture all the knowledge in the world and keep it in a pumpkin for himself: recipes, building instructions, formulae, even vocabulary and rules of grammar. Wilhelm von Humboldt wanted to collect vocabulary and grammar rules too. But he wanted to share them with as many people as possible. He was fascinated by languages, and learned more than 30 himself.

Using two of these languages, Italian and German, Maria Carmela Marinelli and Naemi Schmidt-Lauber will entice their audience into the world of languages, experimenting with sounds, word sequences and animal languages, telling stories about Wilhelm von Humboldt and encouraging us to preserve language as a precious treasure.

Carmela Marinelli is a storyteller, drama teacher (MA) and teacher of German as a second/foreign language (MA). She trained at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. She works with storytelling projects in Berlin and Saxony and appears at international storytelling festivals. She provides training on tandem storytelling, multilingual storytelling and storytelling in foreign language teaching at the universities of Leipzig, Halle and Jena. Her storytelling is remarkable for its vitality, suggestiveness, humour and exuberant spirit. She tells stories in German, Italian and Spanish, and if words are not enough, with her hands, her feet and a huge heart until the sparks really fly.

Naemi Schmidt-Lauber studied drama in Innsbruck, Hamburg and New York. After 15 years of performing in various theatres across Germany, including in Hamburg, Göttingen, Münster and Jena, she was drawn to Berlin. She has performed at the Sophiensaelen, the Theaterdiscounter and the HAU (Hebbel Am Ufer), devises and produces plays, and has worked as a producing director since 2007.She undertook training as a storyteller at the Universität der Künste, and has subsequently performed in that capacity at a variety of venues. Aside from the Humboldt Forum, her clients include the Jüdisches Museum Berlin, the Museum für Völkerkunde/ Japanisches Palais in Dresden, the Internationale Literaturfestival Berlin, the Labyrinth Kindermuseum, Grashüpfer Berlin and Theater unterm Dach. She appears as a storyteller in schools in Berlin, and sets up storytelling initiatives, usually in the context of cultural education with children. She also directs the inclusive theatre group Die Grünen Bananen at the berlinerSTARThilfe e.V., an association for the support of disabled people.

- Languages: German & Italian

- 3,00 EUR / 1,50 EUR reduced, free choice of seats

- Hall 3

Price: €3.00

Reduced price: €1.50

© Museumsportal Berlin